weight — English to French

How English weight is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: weight in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: weight (53 028), weights (4 248). By style: everyday 306 · literary 10 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 1 604 · legal and administrative 34 743 · UN documents 20 561.

poids

Used about 32 019 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 256 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 1 170 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 267 · UN documents ≈ 10 281).

• I'll lose weight.

  Je perdrai du poids.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2247780 #1593888

• And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the weight of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea.

  Cet instrument allait, en effet, nous devenir inutile, du moment que le poids de l'air dépasserait sa pression calculée au niveau de l'Océan.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1534

• Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?

  Est-on pur avec des balances fausses, Et avec de faux poids dans le sac?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MIC 6:11

• Human rights or profits: two weights, two measures.

  Droits de l'homme ou profits : deux poids, deux mesures.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 415091

• Avg mass of weights

  Poids moyen des lests

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4649005

pondérations

Used about 13 956 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 857 · UN documents ≈ 2 998). Forms: pondération, pondérations.

• What is the risk of the assets on the balance sheets, and can you trust the risk weights applied to those assets?

  Quel est le risque des actifs dans les bilans, et peut-on se fier aux pondérations des risques appliquées à ces actifs?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1552819

• SUBJECT TO RISK WEIGHTS

  FAISANT L'OBJET DE PONDÉRATIONS

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5386317

• Errors in expenditure weights

  Erreurs dans les coefficients de pondération des dépenses

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5131777

• Poland and Spain should be reminded that their intransigence over the reform of voting weights in Council is perilous politics as well as poor mathematics.

  Il conviendrait en outre de rappeler à la Pologne et à l’Espagne que leur intransigeance dans la réforme de la pondération des voix au Conseil traduit à la fois une politique périlleuse et un calcul mathématique déplorable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 503572

• Methods to calculate risk weights do not apply

  Les méthodes de calcul des pondérations ne s'appliquent pas

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3349015

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• You don't need to throw your weight around.

  Inutile de jouer les gros bras.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mccarras and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8985307 #10521825

• He's put on weight recently.

  Il a grossi ces derniers temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #8836939 #932049

• In the desert, water is worth its weight in gold.

  Dans le désert, l'eau vaut son pesant d'or.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · #6569183 #6569802

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